- Location
- San Francisco
- First held
- 2001
- Official website
- hardlystrictlybluegrass.com ↗
Hardly Strictly Bluegrass is a jazz festival in San Francisco, United States, first held in 2001. Between festival editions, 3 jazz venues in the city keep live jazz going all year.
Hardly Strictly Bluegrass (HSB), originally Strictly Bluegrass, is an annual free and non-commercial music festival held the first weekend of October in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, California. Conceived and subsidized by San Francisco venture capitalist Warren Hellman, the festival has been held every year since the first event in 2001. From its outset, the festival has been subsidized by Hellman. Various corporations have offered to sponsor the event over the years, but Hellman always turned them down, saying in an interview, "I want to keep it entirely free and noncommercial". After his 2011 death, Hellman's heirs and his foundation have continued to fully fund and oversee the festival. For some performers, the unique fact that the event is unsponsored is very important to character.
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Jazz clubs nearby
- Black Hawk live music venue
- Jazz Workshop live music venue
- Keystone Korner live music venue
Other festivals in the United States
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